To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
I think the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.
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I think the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.
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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.
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A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
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It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool’s paradise.
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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.
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The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.
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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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People speak sometimes about the “bestial” cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.
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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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